Amy Thompson

By Geoff Crocker, a professional economist writing on technology at www.philosophyoftechnology.com and contributor to Basic Income Earth Network, www.basicincome.org 1 Introduction – affordability as the prime objection to basic income The most prominent objection to Basic Income in public...

Professor Charlie Lees is Professor of Politics at the University of Bath. Exsanguination: defined by the online Free Dictionary as “extensive blood loss due to internal or external haemorrhage”. As a metaphor for political demise it is not quite so...

Dr Nick Startin, Head of Department, PoLIS The French presidential election campaign delivered as many twists and turns as a soap opera. But it ended with an air of predictability. Emmanuel Macron polled two thirds of votes cast compared to...

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